System of motor control.



No. 853,820. PATBNTED MAY 14, 1907.

' W. S. MOODY.

SYSTEM OF MOTOR UONTROL.

APP'LIUATION FILED O0T.26,1905

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WALTER S. MOODY, OF SCHENECTADY, NEI/V YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed October Z5, 1905. Serial No. 284,307.

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Be it known that I, WALTER S. MOODY, a citizen oi the United States, residing at Schenectady, county of Schenectady, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Imynovements in Systems of Motor Control, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the control of regulating switches for transformers and similar devices driven by electric motors, and its object is to arrange the motor-control so that a careless operator will be prevented from leaving the switch-blade in. a position bridging two z'nljacent contacts, thereby causing a local overloading of that portion of the transformer winding included. between the contacts so bridged.

The invention consists in the combination with a dial-switch of a motor and a push-button or other self-opening switch for starting it, and a device for closing a shunt around said switch as soon as the motor begins running, so that the control oi the motor is taken away from the operator, and the mechanism. continues to run until said device opens the circuit. This operation is timed to occur only when the switch-blade has come to a position where it would be properly allowed to come to rest,i. 6., squarely in. contact with only one clip. This controlling device comprises, preferably, a rotatable drum of insulation geared to the motor and carrying two electrically-connected contact rings cooperating with contact lingers which form the terminals or the shunt around the self opening starting switch or push-button. Each ring has a gap or break, and the lingers are so adjusted that they coincide with the gaps simultaneously, so that the device operates as a double-pole switch. The gearing is calculated to impart a single revolution to the drum during the time that the dial switclr-blade is moving from one clip to the next, and the gaps in the rings are brought under the fingers just as this movement is completed. All the operator has to do,

therefore, is to push the button and hold it until. the motor starts; after which the rotating drum contacts will keep the motor running the proper length of time and stop it when the switch-blade completes its movement.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a diagram of circuits and apparatus embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the drum switch. The diagram is purely illustrative; the parts not being drawn to a scale, and the gearing not being relatively timed.

The drawings shows the dial switch 1 of a transformer 2 as the apparatus whose movement is to be insured by my invention; though. it is evident that there may be substituted for said switch any other mechanism in which a movable element is to be shifted a predetermined amount from one position to another with no possibility o'l stopping between. In the dial switch the movable shitting element is the switch-blade 3 which is actuated by a shaft d connected by gearing 5 with an electric motor 6. In this instance the motor is shunt-wound, its field magnet coils being connected by the leads 7 7 with the main switch 8; preferably of the d oublepole type and connected to the mains 9 9.

One of the armature brushes is connected with the lead 7 through the lead 10, one blade of a double-pole reversing switch 11, and a branch lead 12, connected with the crossconnected clips 13, 1d of the reversing switch. The other armature brush is connected by the lead with the pivoted armaturedever 16 of an electromagnetic switch. A spring 17 holds said arm ature-lever normally against a contact 18 connected by a lead 19 with the lead 10, so that the motor armature is normally short-circuited. One terminal of the magnet coil 20 of the switch is connected by a lead 21 with the lead 19, and its other terminal is connected. by a lead 22 with the other blade of the reversing switch. A branch lead 19 connects the lead 22 with the contact 18 on which the lever 16 closes when the electromagnet is energized. In the position shown, the blades of the reversing switch are closed upon the clips 13, 23, the latter being cross-connected with the clip 24; and also connects by cuit-brealwr lead 25. I

The trip coil 27 of the (fil'CUii-l)10ttli0l' is controlled by a limit switch operated by the motor and acting to energize said trip coil when the switch-blade of the dial switch reaches the limit of its travel in either direction. The blade oi the limit switch closes on either the contacts 22) 29 or 30 30, as the case may be. Contac 29 is connected by a short lead 3]. with the lead 7. Contact 30 is connected by lead 32 with the lead 25, before the latter reacl es the circuit-b1:alrer. The two contacts 29 30 are connected by a common l ad 33 with the tripping coil .27, whose other terminal is connected by the lead 34' with the lead 22.

A self-opening switch, such as the pushb utton 1 55, is interpolated in the lead 2? lhe push-button is shunted by two leads do which terminate in springanounted lingers 37 mounted on a suitabl base 38 and bearing against two metal rings encircling a drum (5 being interpolated in the 40 of wood or other insulating material. The rings are electrically connected. and at one point are cut open, the gap being lilled by a strip -L1 of insulation. The drum is rotatably mounted in standards 42, and is geared by spur-gear and pinion 1L3 to the shaft ot the motor (5. The working parts are inc-losed in a cover H, and the switch is suitably mounted on the transformer, together with the motor and the limit switch. The main switch, reversing switch, electroinagnetic switch, push-button and circuit-brealter are mountedv on a switch board of any convenient size and in any convenient location.

The operation of the device is as lollows: Upon closing the main switch 8, the l'ield coils ol the motor are energized. The cir- (l1iti)l"ttl(0l 26 is then closed and atter that the reversing switch. But inasmuch as the motor armature is short-circuited. no current will llow through ituntil the electromagnetic switch is energized by closing the push-button 35. ("urrent th n [lows l'rom the lead 7 by way of leads 12, it), it) and 21 to the electromagnet 20, thence by leads 2'2 and 25 to the laid completing the circuit and energizing said magnet. The lever 16 is drawn over against the contact its, opening the short-circuit and sending current through the motor armature trom lead it), thence by lead 15, lever 16. and leads it), 22 and 25. As soon as the motor starts, it begins to move the switch-blade 3% ol the dial switch l'rom one clip to the next. At the same time a lead 25 with the laid 7': a cirl the magnetenergized and the the drum begins a rotation. and the insulating strip H is carried out from under the fingers 3T, permitting them to make contact with the rings 33S) and thus establish a shunt around the push-button. which serves to lieep motor armaol? the opera the time the ture circuit closed independent tor and the push-button. By

switch-blade 3 has arrived squarely on the next clip, the drum will have completed its rotation, and the insulating strip +1 1 will have been brought again under the lingers, thereby breaking the shunt. de ncrgizing the magnet. and letting the spring I? withdraw the lever trom the contact its" and short-circuit the motor armature so that it stops promptly.

Then the switch-blade reaches one end of its t'avel, the blade 2L5 ol the limit switch closes upon the contacts 20 2t) or 30 I30 and thereby energizes the tripping coil 2? ol' the circuit-brealcer and opens the lead 2.1). Then the motor cannot be started until the reversing switch has been thrown over, so that the switch-blade will beginits reverse movement.

That i claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ol the l nited States, is,-

l. in combiiniiion with a main regulating switch comprising a series ol stationary contact. and a movable arm arranged to engage said contacts successively, a driving motor geared to said arm, a reversing switch theretor, a self-opening starting switch lor said motor, and a switch driven by said motor arranged to close a shunt circuit around said sell-opening switch and to open the motor circuit automati-ally when the motor has made a predetermined number of revolutions corresponding to a movement (it said arm from one contact of said series to the next.

2. in combination with a main regulating switch comprising a series ol stationary contacts an i a movabl arm arranged to engage said contacts successively. a driving motor geared to said arm. a reversing switch therefor. a sell-opening starting switch l'or closing the motor circuit momentarily at starting, and a rotary switch geared to said motor arranged to close a shunt circuit aroune said starting switch and to open the motor circuit automati vaily when the motor has made a predetermined number oi revolutions corresponding to a movement ol said arm l'rom one contact ol said series to the next.

2%. in combination with a main regulating switch comprising a series oi stationary con tacts and a movable arm arranged to engage said contacts siu-cessively, a driving motor geared to said arm. a reversing switch therefor. a sell opening starting switch lor said motor. a switch driven by said motor arranged to close a shunt circuit around said self-opening switch and to open the motor {circuit automatically when the motor has made a predetermimal number ol revolutions correspoiuling to a movement ol said arm from one contact ol' said. series to the next, and 2t li1nit-switeh controlled by the I actuated by said motor, a circuit-breaker for movement oi the motor and adapted to open the armature oireult, and 2r limit-switch L Y. r y .l', L l 7 i the motor oneuit independently or the other actuated by the motor and controlling said 1notor-(controlling switches when Silld arm i e1reu1t-breake1x 5 reaches either extreme of said series. l in witness whereof, I have hereunto set 15 '1 The combination with a motor, of an my hand this 24th day of October, 1905.

electromagnetic switch controlling the arnin- WVALTER S. MOODY. ture circuit thereof, a push-button oontrolitnessesz ling said switch, a shunt around said button, EDWARD XVILLIAMS, Jr.,

0 and a switeh controlling said shunt and MARGARET E. 'WooLLEY. 

